Stump-extractor



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 R. B. MONTGOMERY.

STUMP EXTRAGI'OR.

No. 356,693. Patented Jan. 25, 1887..

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,693, dated January25, 1887.

Application filed July 1, 1886. Serial No. 266.838. (No model.)

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Be it known that 1, ROBERT E. MONTGOM- ERY, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, residing at Montour, in the county of Tania and Stateof Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stump orPost Extractors, of which the following is a speciiication, referencebeing bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention pertains to certain new and useful improvements in stumpor post extractors; and itconsists in the detail, construction,combination, and arrangement of the parts, substantially as hereinafterset forth, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of myinvention. Fig. 2 is an end view. Fig. 3 is a top plan view. Figs. 4 and5 are detail views thereof; and Fig. 6 is a view in perspective of myinvention, showing the standards extended.

In carrying out my invention I provide an oblong platform or base, A,preferably of wood, to which are secured the horizontal plates a a oftwo supporting standards, B B, one of which plates, a, is bolted at ornear its outer end to the top surface of the oblong platform or base A,and its other inner end is apertured for passage of a bolt, hereinafterreferred to.

The horizontal plate a of the supportingstandard 13 is provided with two(or more) elongated slots or apertures, a a", for passage therethroughof suitable nutted bolts, c a, for adjusting the position of the saidstandard B. The bolt a is passed up through the aperture formed at ornear the inner end of the horizontal plate a, and also through theelongated slot or aperture a", after which it is secured in position bymeans of a nut on said bolt, thereby adjusting, in connection with itsfellow bolt, (4*, the position of the supporting-standard B. Thesestandards project at right angles from the horizontal plates, and areeach additionally supported in position by means of inclined braces b71, secured at or near the upper outer side of each standard and at ornear the outer ends of each horizontal plate a a. Each standard isprovided with'inclined slots or openings b, extending from one sidedownwardly therein to about the center thereof.

0 is the operating-lever, which is constructed principally of wood, andon one end is providedon its upper surface witha sharp-pointed plate, 0,secured to said lever by any ordinary means, and near the outer end ofsaid plate, immediatelyin rear of the sharp-pointed projection, ispassed therethrough, and also through the lever, ahooked bolt, D,extending a short distance beyond the upper surface of said plate, thepurpose of which will appear farther on. The lever has also applied oneither side thereof, at or near said end, two hooked plates, E, the flatportion of which is secured directly against the sides of said lever byscrews or other ordinary means, the purpose of which will soon appear.Said lever is also provided with a series of holes or up ertures forpassage therethrough of a suitable bolt or pin, F, which serves as afulcrum or pivot for said lever, the projecting ends of said bolt or pinbeing inserted in any two of the corresponding inclined slots oropenings b of the standards B B.

In lieu of passing the bolt or pin F through the holes in the lever, thelatter is provided with a plate, G, secured to its under side, and inconnection with this form of construction I employ a collar, F, which isinserted on the forward end of the lever. This collar has correspondingapertures formed in the lower portion of its sides for insertion of thebolt or pin F, the latter being placed in any two of the apertures inthe standards. The pin being thus inserted in the standards, thecorrugated plate will rest thereon, and can be adjusted as may bedesired by slightly moving said plate over its fulcrum pin or bolt.

in operation, a suitable chain (not shown) is secured around the upperend of the post or stake, as the case may be, and the looped portion isthen secured to the projecting hooked bolt D, and the sharp-pointedprojection is plunged or forced into the surface of the article to beraised, after which pressure is applied to the outer end of said lever,thus effecting the raising of the post or stake being acted upon.l-Vhen, as is often the case, the post or stake to be raised is decayedand the sharppointed projection cannot be securely inserted therein, thechain is dropped down on the post or stake as far as desirable and madefast thereto, and the two ends of the chain are hooked on the hooks ofthe plates E, the lever being elevated for that purpose, and by forcingdownwardly on said lever, the sharppointed projection is forced into thepost, and the post can thereby be raised from the ground.

The object of rendering adjustable one of the supporting-standards isthat in the event of it being a pole of large proportions, a strongerand larger lever may be employed, the standard B being adjustedaccordingly.

The before-referred-to plate G, secured to the under side of thelever,while serving the purpose stated, also serves as a brace orprotector for the end of the lever where secured. Said plate is extendedup and. secured to the outer end of thelever, and is then bent back ontothe upper surface of said lever, and the pointed plate 0 is secured inposition, resting on this bent portion of the plate G, so that the innerend of the pointed projection rests against the upwardly-extendedportion of the said plate. It will be seen that the hooked bolt is alsopassed through the backwardly-bcnt portion of this plate G and throughthe lever, and again through the said plate, and is secured by ordinarymeans on the under outer side of said plate.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination ofthe base-block and a stationary and a laterally-adjnstable standard with the lever having a plate provided with pointedprojections on its end and a pivoted fulcrum-pin, all substantially asdescribed.

2. The combination, with the notched standards and the fulcrum-pin, ofthe lever having the plate provided with pointed projections and thehooked bolt extending through said plate, substantially as shown anddescribed.

3. In a stump or post extractor, the combination, with the platform orbase and the lever, of the slotted standards having horizontal plates,one of said standards being laterally adjustable, and the nutted bolts,substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signaturein presence of two Witnesses.

ROBERT B. MONTGOMERY. Witnesses:

S. T. 'ASHER, PHILIP BUTTER.

